144530: Fabricated Report Concerning Virtue of Special Prayer After Bath From Menses

I got an e-mail which quoted a hadeeth (prophetic narration) from the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): “If a woman does ghusl (takes a bath) following her menses and prays two rak‘ahs (units of prayer) in which she recites al-Fatihah and Surah al-Ikhlas three times in each rak‘ah, she will be forgiven every sin she committed, minor or major, and no sin will be recorded for her until her next period, and she will be given the reward of sixty martyrs…” Is this a saheeh (authentic) hadeeth?

Praise
be to Allah.

There is
no basis for this hadeeth and it is not mentioned in the well-known books of
hadeeth. Rather it was mentioned by al-Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Safoori (d.
894 AH) in his book Nuzhat al-Majalis wa Muntakhab al-Nafais (p. 240), where
he said:

It was
narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): “If a
woman does ghusl following her menses and prays two rak‘ahs in which she
recites al-Fatihah and Surah al-Ikhlas three times in each rak‘ah, she will
be forgiven every sin she committed, minor or major, and no sin will be
recorded for her until her next period, and she will be given the reward of
sixty martyrs, a city will be built for her in Paradise, she will be given
light for every hair on her head, and if she dies before her next menses she
will die as a martyr.” End quote.

The fact
that this is the only book that mentions this hadeeth is sufficient to prove
that it is false and fabricated, because it is a book that is filled with
false reports. Al-Shaykh Muhammad Rasheed Rida said:

We cannot
rely on the hadeeths with which books of exhortation, heart-softening
reports and tasawwuf (Sufism) are filled, without examining their origins
and degrees of authenticity. This ruling does not apply only to books whose
authors are not known for having advanced knowledge (of hadeeth), such as
the book Nuzhat al-Majalis, which is filled with fabricated hadeeths and
other reports; rather even the books of some leading scholars, such as
al-Ihya, are not free of many fabricated reports. End quote.